Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Strange Tale of the Moon House
There are always various legends circulating in this world.
Just like the old days when swords traveled the world, the swordsmen who crisscrossed the rivers and lakes and were happy and hateful have always been the idols in the hearts of hot-blooded teenagers and the intended people of the dreams of young girls.
But where are the rivers and lakes? No one knows. But this does not prevent these young men and women with dreams from chasing the stories of those legendary chivalrous and chivalrous women, and the heroic stories passed down by word of mouth have never stopped.
Because, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and people's hearts yearn for extraordinary complexes to create this forever wonderful rivers and lakes.
With the general trend of the electronics industry, countless men and women in the city are enjoying the rapid changes brought about by the changes of the times, but the psychology of human beings who are desperately eager to hunt for curiosity has never changed.
It's just that back then, the legends of the rivers and lakes turned countless boys and girls upside down, but today, it is countless urban legends that make these urban people who are thirsty for excitement and freshness rush to it.
It is under this complex that all kinds of bizarre urban legends emerge in an endless stream like parasites behind the reinforced concrete of the city.
And in the various urban legends of one kind or another, Akihabara, which is based on otaku culture, is naturally not exempt from vulgarity.
With the conscious promotion of the crowd and some insightful sales managers, the strange story about Akihabara has naturally become a topic of conversation among the people who open shops on this electric pedestrian street, as well as the young men and women who linger here.
For a long time, Tsukimiya was known as one of the "Seven Incredible Ideas of Akihabara" on the Akihabara Electric Street. -- This is a natural reason, but imagine that a maid café that operates on a shopping street with high rents and a maid café based on the business of repeat customers has not opened its doors a few times since it opened
The fact that this shop has survived and is still standing still on the streets of Akihabara is a topic of conversation in its own right.
Of course, this is not enough, after all, who knows if this moon house is still doing some shady business behind the scenes, so this maid café on the surface is just a façade. However, this speculation was not long in being overturned, as a strange message began to circulate among the clerks who worked part-time in Akihabara: This Tsukimi House, which never opens, is actually a nest of youkai
It is said that the first person to discover the truth of this horror was Nakano, who worked part-time at a second-hand software store in Kawashita.
One evening, Nakano received a call from a buyer who asked for a set of 3D game software in eight phases, which was the first software in the VR-F season in the past, and as the 3D game console has completely withdrawn from the next-generation game console stage, these second-hand software has become scarce and expensive.
So when Nakano received this order call, he was quite happy, knowing that the profit from the sale of such a set of second-hand software was really considerable, and as a handler, he naturally increased the amount of commission. But what made Nakano hesitate was that although this buyer did not hesitate to order this expensive set of used 3D game software, the other party asked him to deliver it to his door.
Looking at the wall clock on the wall, it was close to seven o'clock in the evening, less than an hour before Nakano's part-time job ended, and Nakano was naturally a little hesitant after a busy day.
"Send it over, add you 10 freight fees" The other party heard Nakano's hesitation and said impatiently on the phone.
Nakano had no reason to hesitate anymore, he said hello to his colleague, got on his bicycle and went straight to the delivery.
The buyer lived far enough away that it took about four hours to get back and forth when Nakano finished delivering the goods, got the payment for the goods and his own delivery fee, and rushed back to Akihabara.
Nakano hurriedly returned to the store, recorded the payment, and then changed into the clerk's clothes and went out, it was almost 11 o'clock.
Although he was very tired, he was still very happy in his heart, after all, today's income was still quite rich, he hummed the single tune that he had just learned AB48 to come out this month, locked the door of the store and prepared to go home.
However, a soft light and shadow caught Nakano's attention.
Not far ahead, there is a strange cluster of light, where it floats up and down regularly, like a little girl carrying a lantern on the Midyear Festival, bouncing and circling back and forth beside her parents.
What is this? Nakano was very puzzled, you must know that Akihabara is an electric street, after the subway operation ends at 11 o'clock in the evening, there will be no pedestrians lingering here, except for poor guys like himself who return late because of work, basically Akihabara is an empty no-man's land now.
The ball of light still flipped up and down lightly, flickering occasionally, as if in a playful blink.
Zhongye's heart was a little hairy, but he didn't know why, as if a voice was calling him, and the light of the light cluster was as gentle as the light in the shrouded oil lamp on a summer night when he was a child, attracting countless moths to bump one after another.
In this way, Nakano involuntarily stepped forward.
Walking along the light source, Nakano was shocked to find that the place where the strange light came out was actually the Tsukimiya that had been closed all along
At this moment, the moon house seems to be very lively, I looked at it from a distance before, and I only saw the soft light, but now that I am closer, in addition to the light becoming more and more obvious, I can also hear the faint laughter of girls.
Could it be that this moon house is ready to open for business, so it is open in-house today? Nakano thought this as he leaned over to sneak a peek out the window. However, the windows of the Tsukimi House were covered with thick curtains, and it was impossible to see the scene inside.
The curious Nakano wanted to know more and more about the situation inside, and he circled around the perimeter of the Tsukimi House twice, and suddenly remembered the soft light that Shicai attracted him to, since this light leaked from the Tsukimi House, then there must be a gap there.
Nakano finally found the light source, and sure enough, a small hole was torn in the curtain of this window, and the light that attracted Nakano was leaked from this small hole.
A delighted Nakano immediately leaned over to the torn curtain and squinted his eyes to look inside.
That glance made poor Nakano feel terrified.
In the empty hall of the Moon House, a black-haired woman in a long blue robe was carrying a papier-mâché lantern, circling in place, her slender wrist was actually without a palm, where it should have been a palm, suddenly stretched out a thin lantern handle, connected to the lantern.
The lantern grew on the woman's wrist alive.
The woman's eyebrows were very beautiful, but there was always a faint sadness on her face, and she circled in circles, as if she were doing some unknown dance, and the long-sleeved flowing arm waved up and down, and the lantern attached to the arm also flew up and down, arcing in the air.
Qingxing lantern This is a qingxing lantern
Nakano trembled, cold sweat streaming down his back.
In the hut in the middle of the night, women dancing the dance of sorrow, carrying lanterns that attract passers-by to stay...... Isn't this what the Qingxing lantern looks like in the weird stories that my grandmother told me when I couldn't sleep at night in the summer when I was a child?
But...... Aren't the green lights in the weird stories all appear in the wilderness? Why is this kind of monster in the metropolis of Tokyo now? Moreover......
Nakano suddenly remembered a terrifying question, that is, in the story that his grandmother told him, what would happen to the pedestrians who were on a night road were attracted by the lantern light of the Qingxing lantern?
"Silly boy, go to bed obediently" Whenever Nakano asked this question when he was a child, his grandmother always laughed, patted his head, and stopped talking.
The story of the Aohang Lantern, and the ending of the traveler who met the Aohang Lantern, became Nakano's biggest childhood thoughts. It's just that grandma has never been willing to tell him the story of the ending, and no matter how Nakano cries and begs, it won't help.
So after Nakano was able to read and write, he immediately went to find the famous Japanese folklore collection "Strange Tales of a Hundred Things", to continue the results of this half-story that had entangled his entire childhood.
"The appearance of the lanterns is different, but they are all very terrifying ghosts, they are not human, but the little ghosts of hell, and they often wander at the entrance of the underworld. They will use a variety of ways, either to preside over the hundred ghost lanterns, or to attract travelers, and eventually pull people into the ghost door. ”
The gloomy feeling of compassion when he saw this line of text still makes Nakano shudder.
Just thinking of this, Nakano suddenly trembled, and was horrified to find that at the moment when he was distracted just now, Qingxingdeng, who was silently dancing strangely in the room, suddenly stopped, looked at himself quietly, and the sad look in his eyes became more and more intense.
She, stretching out her arm, which had no palm, gently waved the flickering paper lantern, and showed Nakano a strange smile.
She...... Beckoning to me
That was Nakano's last thought, and then his poor and fragile heart finally couldn't bear the burden that was almost jumping out of his chest, and he fainted unusually simply.
The next day, Nakano of the second-hand shop woke up to find himself sleeping on the road, and Aunt Obasan, who was sweeping in the morning, was looking at him with disdain.
On the same day, Nakano resigned. When the store manager asked him why, he just bit his lip with a pale face, refused to say anything, and even wanted the basic part of this month's salary, and he didn't want any bonuses and commissions, he just wanted to leave this place as much as possible.
Leave Akihabara with Tsukimiya.
There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the horror story of Nakano in the second-hand store was finally heard by the good people from various channels, and no one dared to really go in the middle of the night to see if there were really monsters in the Tsukimi House, because the strange stories of Japan are too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Maybe some guys who are not afraid of death went during this period, but whether they really went, or whether they came back with their whole body, no one knows.
However, the name of Tsukimiya has finally been established on the list of strange stories of Akihabara Seven.
And the clerk standing in front of the door of the Tsukimi House at the moment,It's a guy who likes weird stories.,About the legend of the Tsukimi House,He's naturally a treasure.,But this kind of weird talk of urban legends.,Originally, it's three points true.,Seven points false.,So he actually doesn't really believe it.。 So today, the store manager asked him to go to the Tsukimiya to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and he was naturally very curious.
The door that had not been opened for 10,000 years finally opened. A